Trey Gowdy

Politician

1964-08-22

Quotes by Trey Gowdy

• The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.

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• I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

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• There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

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• You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.

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• Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

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• I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

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